Course Schedule
Lehrveranstaltungen
Grund- und Menschenrechte (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Joachim Sanden
Termin:
wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 18:15 - 19:45 | 12.10.2015 - 29.01.2016 | C 12.013 Seminarraum
Inhalt: This course focuses on the protection of human rights within the International, European and German law. After a brief analysis of the history of human rights protection and the underlying concepts, the course presents the rules of Human Rights on an international level, in the EU and in Germany. Element are the key UN institutions involved in protecting and enforcing human rights. We discuss some of the key global treaties concerned with protecting and enforcing human rights. In this context, e.g. the European Convention on Human Rights and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights will be analysed. Furthermore, we will discuss the civil rights concept for EU citizens. Analysis in the course will be based on the jurisprudence of the International Courts, the European Court for Human Rights, the European Court of Justice and also on the cases of the German Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) as a national court. In the second part, the course enables the students to write essays in human rights as well as case studies dealing with leading HR cases. This is to prepare the final essays which are an element of the course goal. The third part of the course will be devoted to activities undertaken by Germany in order to promote human rights' protection. The doctrines of general constitutional rights and namely different protection functions are dealt with, as well as single constitutional rights and their coverage through the constitutional complaint procedure at the BVerfG. The special emphasis will be put on the scope and impact of specific human rights relevant for the economy as profession, property, residence etc.